earthli will stay remarkably (and perhaps pleasantly) succinct today, letting <a href="http://www.theonion.com/onion3912/i_should_not_be.html">I should not be allowed to say the following things about America</a> on <a href="http://www.theonion.com/">the Onion</a> explain why. For a guide to proper response to the war, see <a href="http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2003/033003.asp" title="Complete transcript of defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld's informal weekly press gaggle with assmebled FOX newspeak information operatives">Rumsfeld's weekly press gaggle with FOX operatives</a> on <a href="http://www.whitehouse.org/">Whitehouse.org</a>. For more context and a good bit of history (and to tie in the article title), I strongly recommend <a href="http://www.democracymeansyou.com/serious/democracy-failed.htm">When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History</a>, an article by Thom Hartmann, a historian and writer. The parallels are amazing.